Yoplait is Making Americans Fat
Yogurt is an interesting marketing study, as it is repackaged every two or so years depending on what the latest diet trend is. Currently, it is being marketed to help digestive conditions. Well duh, that is how it was being marketed in the 70s when I first tasted it.
I try to do no sugar. And I purchase my regular food items knowing what does and doesn’t work for me. So on my last trip to the grocery store, I didn’t find my regular yogurt brand. I saw Yoplait Light Fat Free. On the left of the front panel, the label said “With Aspartame …” Great. I buy a six-pack.
The first suck of yogurt, (one doesn’t take a bite of yogurt, really), and I knew something was wrong. I looked at the front of the yogurt container again. “With Aspartame &” then on the next line, “Other Sweetener.” Notice the singular tense. I flipped the container over to read the nutritional info (which I do on all new products I buy, but hell, this one was sweetened with Aspartame so I didn’t think I needed to).
First ingredient: nonfat milk. Second ingredient: HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP. Those ass sucking sons of Yoplait bitches. Aspartame was the tenth ingredient listed, right above the food colorings.
They promote this product as sweetened with Aspartame when it is really sweetened with high fructose corn syrup. Misleading, dishonest, immoral, and possibly deadly product labeling.
I called the Yoplait 800 number to complain and the customer service rep said she would pass along my sentiments. Then she said she would give me a refund. I didn’t care about a refund. I was pissed at their misleading labeling.
“What did you spend on the product and we’ll send you a check.”
“I don’t know.”
“Well take a guess.”
So I told her $500.
I am to expect a $3 check in the mail within the week. In the meantime, it looks like I have a little letter writing to do to the Utah department of agriculture, among other agencies. Fuckin French.
Filed under: Ranting, Health, Life Lessons, Am I Bad?, Marketing
Totally rediculous - one of my professors told me that ‘marketing and labeling’ is how they get away with
labeling products ‘cholesterol free’ as well (for example potato chips) - so there is no cholesterol added, but there IS fat….which by the way when you eat it, your body converts it to cholesterol(which is why a high fat diet can make your cholesterol go up)!! Deadly games marketers play. Btw, I had yet another lecture from a different prof on B12 deficiency and I asked her after class if alcohol interfers with B12 absorption - and she said NO! She said she has been in practice for 20+ years and has never seen that…..I asked her why a Harvard educated neurologist told us that it did and why they say it does in peer-reviewed literature - and she said she had no idea!!! She thinks that ‘maybe in huge amounts, because severe alcoholics tend to be nutritionally deficient anyway’. Makes sense to me……never trust Harvard dudes
I object highly to high fructose corn syrup, and it is quite difficult to find any packaged product in America that does not use it. Yoplait does make a yogurt sweetened with cane sugar called Yoplait Digestive Health. It’s pretty much the best tasting yogurt I’ve had in America. Very reminiscent in flavor and texture to the delicious yogurt I used to eat by the jarfull in Germany. But since you say you don’t do sugar, I guess this isn’t much help. But anyway, sugar’s better than corn syrup any day.
@Sandy I once saw a can of soup labeled very “proudly” as ONLY ONE GRAM OF SODIUM. Well, sodium is traditionally measured in milligrams, and I felt sorry for any elderly people who only saw the ONE and bought it. Also, my B12 shots are helping a lot (I think) and my balance is even coming back, so that feels good. Now I need to get back into my exercise routine and become hot, so I can by chance have sex again with someone in this lifetime. @Sra I try to limit my sugar intake to under 6 grams per serving of anything. Just a number I picked. I lost 42 pounds last year cutting out sugar, and I started that because I was narrowing down what was making me feel pukey all the time. Sugar. This year I am trying to cut out simple carbs.
That is some sneaky messed up shit.
A list of products which do *not* contain high-fructose corn syrup: http://highfructosehigh.com